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Color Mentor

Paul hanrahan interviews film industry professionals about the art and science behind color grading and image making in general.

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92:20

Interview with Richard Muller - Part 2

Color Mentor ·

2025/10/13

This is the second of a two-part discussion I had with Richard Muller. He is a DIT based in Germany now, but like me started out in South Africa. He has a wealth of experience from working on shows like: Chappie, Avengers, Dark, Tribes of Europa, 1899, and more recently The Phoenician Scheme, where he was a virtual production supervisor.We continue to discuss the testing and calibration of various film stocks for use on virtual studios. Also metadata and maintaining consistency and the

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91:06

Interview with Richard Muller - Part 1

Color Mentor ·

2025/09/28

This is the first of a two-part discussion I had with Richard Muller. He is a DIT based in Germany now, but like me started out in South Africa. He has a wealth of experience from working on shows like: Chappie, Avengers, Dark, Tribes of Europa , 1899, and more recently The Phoenician Scheme, where he was a virtual production supervisor.We discuss the role of the Digital Imaging Technician and what in involves and also some testing he is doing with film and video acquisition combined with

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120:27

Interview with Menno Dreischor

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2025/04/16

In this episode I interview Menno Dreischor, a chemical engineer based in Amsterdam. His company TIPb offers engineering solutions for a wide range of industries. Menno’s interest in film led him to develop an algorithm to help with restoring the faded color on old film scans. It analyses the pixel distribution of a supplied source and target image and generates a matching LUT. It is currently in a beta testing phase and has many potential applications from restoration, shot matching and

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72:46

Interview with Akiyoshi Kitaoka

Color Mentor ·

2025/03/03

In this episode I relate a written interview I had with Dr. Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a Professor of Psychology based in Japan. He does research on visual perception and makes visual illusions. His work embodies a fascinating combination of creative and technical aspects. I’d recommend viewing this episode on YouTube rather than as an audio podcast as there are many visual demonstrations.Color Mentor is on YouTube or your favorite podcast provider.Dr. Kitaoka’s

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77:46

Interview with Kevin Shaw - Part 2

Color Mentor ·

2024/11/28

In this second part of the interview with Kevin Shaw I talk to him about the Colorist Society, and around the drive for our industry to organize itself in general. We talk about local and global issues, trade unions, recognition and awards, development and training and much more. I’m keen to hear your experiences with industry organization attempts in the past, let me know in the comments.Here is the IMDB petition if you would like to add your

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163:13

Interview with Kevin Shaw - Part 1

Color Mentor ·

2024/10/30

In this episode I chat to Kevin Shaw. He is a well know colorist and educator in our industry. He has also been a key figure in setting up and promoting the Colorist Society, which is the topic of our following episode. In this episode however we discuss telecines. Kevin started grading 10 years before I did, at a time when color grading was either telecine or film lab based. We discuss various stages that the industry has gone through since then, all the way up to the present.We

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161:53

Interview with Troy Sobotka - Part 2

Color Mentor ·

2024/10/14

This episode is the second part of my conversation with Troy Sobotka who is a Vancouver based lighting, rendering and all-round image creation person. You may know him as the designer of the Agx render transform. We dive further into the mechanisms of visual cognition and picture formation. He shares a vast knowledge and collection of reference material on this topic. See download link below for additional material. In past years he has written an online blog called the Hitchhikers Guide to

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117:26

Interview with Troy Sobotka - Part 1

Color Mentor ·

2024/09/26

In this episode, I chat to Troy Sobotka who is a Vancouver based lighting, rendering and all-round image creation person. You may know him as the designer of the Agx render transform. We discuss the topic of Visual Cognition as it relates to how we make pictures. He shares a vast knowledge and collection of reference material on this topic. In past years he has written an online blog called the Hitchhikers Guide to Digital Color. I would highly recommend people to read it.We

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132:20

Interview with Jason Iversen

Color Mentor ·

2024/09/13

On this episode I must apologize in advance for having way too much fun.My guest is Jason Iversen he is a Visual Effects Technical Supervisor who has worked at Digital Domain, Rythm and Hues and now is at Weta in New Zealand.We have known each other since high school and worked together many years ago in South Africa.He was the co-founder of the Odforce.net chat forum. And he has worked on more block buster films than I’ve had blocked noses.We talk about visual effects, color pipelines and

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109:42

Interview with Steve Shaw

Color Mentor ·

2024/08/28

Today’s guest will probably be familiar to many of you.Steve Shaw and his company Light Illusion are well known in the world of calibration and color grading.I chatted to him about his work with Quantel and other companies in the past. Also, film emulation over the years and the current products and services that Light Illusion offers.We discuss:(00:00) - Intro(01:13) - Interview starts (01:36) - Starting at Quantel (06:08) - Quantel as pioneers (12:38) - Quantel IQ and Pablo (16:03)

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103:15

Interview with Kaur Hendrikson

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2024/08/14

This episode I’ll be speaking to Kaur Hendrikson a colorist based in Tallinn Estonia. Any of you who use DCTL’s will be familiar with his name.In the last few years, he has setup up a successful DCTL store and is constantly developing new tools for freelancer and large facilities alike.He does DCTL and Python scripting training for Black Magic and platforms like Mixing Light.We spoke about this and a lot more.We discuss: (00:00) - Intro(01:18) - Interview starts (02:04) - Starting

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101:56

Interview with Thatcher Freeman

Color Mentor ·

2024/07/20

In this episode, I'll be talking to Thatcher Freeman. He's a California-based colorist and software engineer. For his day job, he's an actual AI specialist. He's made great contributions to the color grading and software coding communities. He's also a filmmaker, so I wanted to talk to him to find out what makes him tick.We discuss: - Thatchers backgroud in flim making.- The difficulties on finding resources on color theory.- Current industry trends.- A colorist's value.- The combnation of

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